The country is more divided than in recent history, America needs to the wisdom, decency and common sense of Hank Hill, propane and propane accessory salesman/assistant manager. Really just have the show jump ahead a few years to help explain why some of the cast won't be coming back mainly due to the tragic death of Brittney Murphy who voiced Luanne and Joseph and Tom Petty who voiced Luanne's husband Lucky. Just say Joseph is in a major university for a football scholarship and Luanne and Lucky have moved out of town and are doing well. Most of the cast is basically the same, just older. Maybe Bobby is in Arlen community college and an inspiring YouTube comedian to the dismay of Hank. Maybe Dale is stressed over his conspiracy theories being mainstream with Trump in the White House forcing him to try to get crazier. Bill would probably be retired as an Army barber and maybe forced into something else by Hank, Dale and Boomhouer to keep him from killing himself and actually doing okay for the first time in years. Boomhouer is exactly the same, because why mess with perfection. Hank and Peggy are slightly older and Hank still has to keep everyone in line and deal with a changing world in his usual way. Bonus lost theatrical short that will amuse and confound me until I either die or figure out exactly what's going on.
I lived with people like that, so I don't need to watch a show like that. It is the same reason I did not like Seinfeld, the big bang theory, will and grace and things like that. Even ab fab was not a big thing for me because I can be a part of bad doing stupid things if I ever wanted. It is sort of like watching football. Unless you are playing it competitively why watch the game?
They did have an episode way back where Dale realized Kennedy's limousine was going the opposite way than what he had long believed. Thus the entire Warren Commission findings made sense and Dale's entire belief in conspiracy theories was blown out of the water.
"Really just have the show jump ahead a few years to help explain why some of the cast won't be coming back mainly due to the tragic death of Brittney Murphy who voiced Luanne and Joseph and Tom Petty who voiced Luanne's husband Lucky." - bizarro ent whoa....dude....Murphy and Petty played husband & wife on the show, and both died younger than would be expected in real life. Dale would have a conspiracy-ready explanation for that, somehow involving Fidel Castro's one man escape submarine deep in Lake Superior! I just remembered - at my nearest neighborhood Walmart there are two old guys (brothers I suspect) who handle the grocery carts in the parking lot, and both look like Cotton Hill! One of them even has a limp just like Cotton Hill! Doubtful though either one of them "killed fifty men!" in WWII.
I'm pretty sure he was still into other conspiracies. I don't think he dropped the various alien ones because the show kept going for a while after that. There's also the lack of much character growth in animated series. Hank learned ways to deal with Cotton multiple times before his death. That's one of the reasons I like it. My brother and I used to joke that my uncle is Hank Hill if he remained single. Tom Petty wasn't exactly young. Died way too soon though.
I just finished the final season, I think they took the show about as far as the original premise would allow. Would be interesting to see a grown up Bobby Hill in college, though.
Bobby to me was one of the most annoying characters ever. I wished Hank and Peggy had another baby that would grow to become the kind of child Hank could be proud of.
That’s the whole point of the show, he brings Hank into a lot of conflicts that either change his mind or he ends up still disagreeing but causing Bobby to grow. A show where everyone is happy and without conflict is boring. Plus Hank has been proud of Bobby a lot of times, although Hank tends to push that too far when Bobby just wants to spend time with him.
Ah, King of the Hill. The show that I only ever watched because it was scheduled in between two other shows that were actually funny and non-annoying. See also: Bob's Burgers, plus Everybody Loves Raymond when it was in syndication.
I don’t remember the order, but it was King of the Hill, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Futurama, The X-Files. The X-Files started off on Friday’s, but got moved to Sunday.
There were good chunks of time in the late '90s and mid-2000s when the Sunday night lineup had The Simpsons at 8, King of the Hill at 8:30, and Family Guy at 9.
Care to explain what you mean by that? Or are you afraid to in Media Central? Or without resorting to scores of negative reps.?
Id kinda like to see the roles reversed with a more traditional Bobby encountering a modern day college setting.
Sometimes life follows or parallels what happens in art (tv shows, movies, etc), it's just one of those things. It's funny and sad at the same time. And I can do both.
Dale has an Italian grandmother, best not to make him question anything. He does truly love that kid though. He's a good dad in his unique way. He also believes that Joseph was partially made by aliens to keep him distracted with fatherhood. That would be interesting, Bobby does come off as naive during the run of the show. I could see him possibly going overboard with certain ideas. He did join a coven once. Bob's Burgers is genius. There's an episode where Gene the son writes and produces a musical version of Die Hard which is later combined with a musical version of Working Girl.
I did always think it was funny that Joseph couldn't be more like Dale mentally and socially than if he was Dale's biological son. Meant to highlight the whole "nurture over nature" thing. At any rate to me the most messed up adult on King of the Hill was always Bill. Endlessly pining away for "Lenore", the real harridan of a wife who abandoned him. That is when he wasn't shamelessly pining for Peggy. Or the occasional other woman of the week.
I always liked the ones where Bill actually gets his shit together manages to succeed. He's really a great example of how depression can wreck a normally successful person.
Peggy was the worst, but Kathy Najimy did a great job voicing her. I've been slowly rewatching the series while at the gym. About halfway through and I'm amazed at the consistent quality of the show. It almost never goes downhill, save for the occasional episode per season. That was hard to spot while it was on the air. Edit: the Dale Gribble voice actor has a great YouTube channel:
The thing is Bill had plenty of opportunities to "win big" in the relationships department. With former Texas governor Ann Richards (who he threw aside when Lenore came back briefly), with the new pastor at the Methodist church who openly wanted Bill (who he threw aside to sing with a men's ocupella group), to Khan's mother (who the writers tossed aside because they didn't want Bill to have a girlfriend). Not to mention having sex with two of his "cousins in law" (voiced by the Dixie Chicks).
That was the beginning of the end for me watching Fox Sunday night. For the years Married with children and the Simpsons were on it was fine, but KotH mad a dead spot and I got into other shows before Family guy and then when Family guy got axed I found no more reason to watch fox Sunday night. The end of married with children was pretty much the end of the Sunday night thing for me. I also had not grown a love for futurama yet. That would not come until it was on comedy central and I ended up watching more of it.
I have to agree with you here. Bobby was such a tool for the writers. Peggy and Bobby were played off as so weak and annoying with no real redeemable qualities. The whole show seemed too tame to entertain for me. That was also my problem with the Simpsons at that point. It seemed more like something that belonged next to full house rather than on Fox on Sunday.
